Events about Writing/Writers

Fall 2010 Events

For additional information, e-mail cww@salem.edu. You may also see details on these and other events in the Fall 2010 Cultural Events brochure, available by clicking here. 

BOOKMARKS FESTIVAL OF BOOKS
Saturday, September 11, 10:00am-5:00pm/Downtown Arts District, Sixth and Trade Streets

BOOKMARKS’ 6th annual festival will feature more than 40 authors along with creative and interactive activities for children. Andrew Leslie, associate professor of sociology at Salem, will give a workshop on the basics of storytelling. Salem College is a proud supporter of this free public festival. Please visit www.bookmarksbookfestival.org for more information.

ROBERT GOOLRICK – A RELIABLE WIFE
Tuesday, September 14th at 7:00 p.m/Shirley Recital Hall, Salem Fine Arts Center

Robert Goolrick is the author of the New York Times bestseller A Reliable Wife, a riveting historical story of love, madness and obsession.  The New York Times Book Review called A Reliable Wife a “suspenseful, psychologically acute gothic tale,” and The Wall Street Journal called it “a buzz-worthy debut novel.” Free.  After the lecture there will be a book signing and refreshments.

SEVERED HANDS AND HIDDEN SECRETS: AN EVENING WITH WRITER  DAN CHAON
Thursday, October 28 at 7:00 p.m./Shirley Auditorium, FAC

Join us for a reading by National Book Award finalist Dan Chaon, who will discuss the inspiration behind his latest novel, Await Your Reply. An unsettling and heartbreaking examination of identity, relationships and betrayal, the book is a literary tour de force with the momentum of a thriller.  The author of two novels and two collections of stories, he is the Pauline M. Delaney Professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin College. Free. Sponsored by the Beverly Johnson Pritchard Lecture Series.

HILLARY JORDAN, AUTHOR OF MUDBOUND
Tuesday, November 2, 7:00 p.m. (Book-signing and refreshments to follow)/Hanes Auditorium, Salem Fine Arts Center

Hillary Jordan’s debut novel, Mudbound, received the 2006 Bellwether Prize for Fiction, a prize founded by Barbara Kingsolver to reward books of conscience, social responsibility and literary merit, as well as the 2009 Alex Award from the American Library Association. Jordan received her MFA in creative writing from Columbia University, and a bachelor's degree in English and political science from Wellesley College. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous literary journals, including StoryQuarterly and The Carolina Quarterly. Free.

AN AFTERNOON CRAFT TALK WITH POET ERIKA MEITNER, WINNER OF THE 2009 POETRY SERIES
Five Common Poetry Taboos (and Why/When/How You Might Break Them)
Thursday, November 11 at 1:00 p.m./Library Assembly Room, 3rd Floor, Gramley Library

We'll be discussing five common poetry taboos, and exploring how you might attempt to use some of these literary devices, or work with unconventional subject matter in your poems. Free.

AN EVENING READING WITH POET ERIKA MEITNER: BUTTER ON YOUR GRITS, KISSES ON YOUR PILLOW
Thursday, November 11 at 7:00 p.m.
Shirley Auditorium, Salem Fine Arts Center

Meitner is the author of the poetry collections Inventory at the All-night Drugstore (Anhinga Press, 2003), and Ideal Cities
which was a 2009 National Poetry Series Winner and was published in 2010 by Harper Perennial.  She has taught creative writing at UVA, UW-Madison and UC-Santa Cruz, and is currently an assistant professor of English at Virginia Tech, where she teaches in the MFA program. Free.